Word: wept
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...Then it turned out that his real name was Mark Chapman, the same as that of the late singer's assassin, and out went Chapman. Now new auditions have turned up Mark McGann, 24, who portrayed the Beatle in the 1981 Liverpool production of the stage musical Lennon. "I wept when I got the role," says McGann. "I grew up in Liverpool just a few miles from where he was born. It's almost spiritual the way John Lennon has become intertwined in my life." Well, he certainly sounds right for the part. And looks it too. So does...
...removed his 125 cc Honda motorcycle from the courtyard that doubles as his church. In full view of the neighbors?and, he assumes, plainclothes police?some 400 worshippers paraded down a quiet lane to the courtyard bearing candles and a memorial photograph of the deceased pontiff. During mass, they wept, prayed and lined up for communion. Authorities made no attempt to stop them. "As long as we don't protest or set off firecrackers, we're basically left alone," says Father Benedictus...
...spokesman wept as he shared the final journey. Awake and serene, the Pope had no desire to return to the hospital for a third time in two months even as his fever rose and his heart failed. Instead, according to Edmund Cardinal Szoka, he lay with his head propped up on pillows, blessing his disciples as they knelt at his bedside, and being blessed by them. He received the sacrament reserved for the dying, heard the Stations of the Cross. Hours later he was slipping in and out of consciousness, his breathing shallow, his organs failing. News came Saturday...
...thanks to the miracle of sports, we have a generation of Manny Papi Sullivans and Johnny Pedro O’Learys popping up all over New England. Grown men wept during the 2005 Red Sox parade, and some people uttered the phrase, “now I can die in peace”, and actually meant...
...Sorrow When I began to read your tsunami report [Jan. 10], I immediately recoiled. I was angry that your photographs showed dead bodies until I realized that my anger was a reaction to human suffering. Then I softened and opened my heart?and wept. I never again want to be unmoved by the suffering of another human being. Thank you for bringing the struggle and anguish of our brothers and sisters into our comfortable homes. Scott Wyman Chico, California...